Yearly Archives: 2010

Another year has passed and this is the time when I thank all readers for continuing to follow NikonRumors. In 2010 we beat all records from previous years: 3,919,159 absolute unique visitors from 226 countries/territories generated a total of 27,379,445 pageviews! The [NR] blog now has a total of 1,538 posts with 96,438 comments. The NikonRumors Forum that was launched […]

Samyang AE 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC Aspherical lens with Nikon F mount is now shipping. The lens was initially delayed for further improvements. A full review can be found here. The US price is $512.99 with free shipping.

I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. Here are the Nikon links from this week: Rare Nikkor Macro lenses set for sale on eBay (see the [NR] guest review): Nikon Rumors Blog Widget now available for free on apple.com (thanks Arman). Update: the download link is currently broken, the widget can be directly downloaded here. […]

The next interesting Nikon patent filed in Japan is for a zoom that can be controlled manually and through a zoom button on the camera body: The idea is to use motorized zoom while video recording (for a smoother, controlled transition) and manual zoom for still photography. This patent could potentially be implemented in the upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera.

Update: you may have to run the firmware update twice in order to get rid of all “bright spots”. Here are three examples: before the update, after the first update and after the second update (.mov files may take a while to load). As previously promised, Nikon USA just published a firmware updated for the Nikon […]

Nikon filed a patent in Japan for interchangeable sensor solution in mirrorless cameras. According to the patent application, the interchangeable sensors will have different AF system, speed (fps) and pixel count in order to suite different shooting preferences: AF Rate Image quality Remarks Contrast AF Slow Good All pixels and therefore can be used for […]